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Very cool ones.OHHH you wrote H3LL!!! That makes my day.

Oh damn SparcStations. Memories. Hey yes, the way cool Solaris kernel. Kids are missing all that nowadays. Sad. But I guess that's what the evolution of technology does. Before the Mac in 1984 there was these HUGE beasts. Hahaha

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^^And they dumped like, 10K of them into a landfill or something? Or was it they cost $10K and I'm thinking of the NES ET game they dumped into a landfill? (Excuse me, I'm a tad tired, Jean had a blood sugar incident so I've been up all night.)

As for those old behemoths, my dad has stories about running boxes of punch cards through them while in college. And I thought I had it bad with dumb terminals and line printers! Now you can run an entire OS off a flash drive smaller than my Zippo.

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^^^Yeah they're all dumped apart some still in museums I guess.I saw a documentary about those drilled cards and these beasts a while back. It was crazy. Now everything gets smaller and smaller. Can't wait for microscopic drives. Think they even got some done but not sure about that.

Yes we're old. In age that is, in the mind it's a totally different thing.

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Saw that just now on Carson Daly and I gotta say that it's the most amazing leg replacement I've ever seen. Dude said that when designing it, he didn't think so much about the biological but rather the mechanical aspect and yes, woahhh!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ATkhKQ3Qn4